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Social Concerns Committee:
FLC will be volunteering at Blair Recycling on Saturday, November 1st.
Sign-up sheet is at the Welcome Center.
Food Pantry Ingathering
This November, the Social Concerns committee of First Lutheran is asking you to participate in a very special response to help our hungry neighbors.
San Andreas Lutheran Church in Omaha, an ELCA mission, provides vital food pantry services to its community. It has served hundreds of families every week, but recent cutbacks and shortages are hampering their efforts to help. At this time they are only offering pantry services every other week, and they still have empty shelves. The Omaha area Lutheran congregations are trying to band together to support this vital ministry.
Pastor Omar is asking for particular grocery staples and does not want anything else. There is a very specific list: canned tuna and/or chicken, rice, dried beans, four, sugar and oil. Bulk quantities would be welcome since they can be separated into smaller portions by volunteers at San Andres.
We need to also continue to support the Washington County Food Pantry, knowing that there will be additional pressure on people in our own community. The is always a box in the narthex for your donations, and this would be a good time to increase your giving. Some of the best things we can provide would be: Peanut butter, Jelly, Canned pasta meals with flip top (Chef Boyardee), Pancake mix needing only water, Microwave Mac n Cheese bowls, Flip top canned fruit, Individual packages of tuna, Canned chili.
The social concerns committee has decided that these local needs are an important priority right now, so we will be conducting this ingathering in place of our usual November emphasis on ELCA world hunger. If you are also moved to contribute to that, information is available on the ELCA website at ELCA.org/hunger.
Look for the Grocery Cart in the Narthex and put your gifts there.
Bless you for your generous response.
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